shoaly
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of shoaly
Example Sentences
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Then the only way we could get off was down over a rough, shoaly slough, where she went like a bucking broncho.
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They swung round a point and threaded the channel that led among the shoaly waters of Musky Bay.
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The island was very large, rocky, and thickly wooded, and the coast was rocky too, and the water very shoaly, which made me understand how difficult landing must have been in the stormy weather.
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Swamps would, perhaps, better describe these shoaly sheets of water, which in summer so swarm with mosquitoes that deer and even the natives sometimes die from their attacks.
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An inlet or shoaly arm of the sea into which a river or rivers empty, and subject to tidal influence.
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